Spokane Eviction Risk: Elevated
Tract 53063013600 · Spokane County, WA · pop 5,177 · 26% of tract blocks fall in Spokane
Eviction risk in Spokane eviction risk centers on tract 53063013600, which scores 5.4/10 (Moderate tier) and is home to 5,177 residents. It lands near the 51st percentile nationally for landlord eviction risk.
Rent eats 30% or more of income for 51% of renter households, a severe level, and 35% are severely burdened at 50% or more. The typical renter pays about $1,438 a month while the average household earns $60,887 a year, roughly 28% of income at the averages. About 45% of occupied units are renter-occupied.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Spokane and the region
Centroid at 47.6055, -117.4836 · click any tract to drill in
Why Spokane scores 6.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Spokane compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 40
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 40%Socioeconomic
- 50%Household composition
- 27%Racial/ethnic minority
- 44%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: C: Definitely Declining
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade C meant mixed-race / working-class neighborhoods rated as risky. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 3%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 11Total filings over 3 yrs
- 0.52%Avg annual filing rate
- 0.7%Peak (2016)
- 5Filings in 2016 (latest validated)
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What drives eviction risk in Spokane
The heaviest input here is eviction process difficulty at 5.5/10. That part comes from the wider legal climate rather than the tract itself. Statewide and court-level factors such as eviction-process speed and rent-control exposure are inherited from Spokane eviction risk, while the economic and supply signals are measured at the tract level.
Set against its neighbors, this tract scores above the Spokane County average of 5.1 and in line with the Washington statewide average of 5.2. Within its own county it reads on the riskier side for landlords.
Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 11 eviction filings here over 3 tracked years, with about 0.5% of renter households facing a filing in a typical year. Filings peaked at 0.7% of renter households in 2016.
The tract is predominantly White and ranks around the 40th percentile nationally on the CDC Social Vulnerability Index, a measure of how exposed residents are to housing and economic shocks. That is a middle-of-the-pack reading for social vulnerability.
For a landlord, conditions here are middle-of-the-road. Standard screening and prompt, documented notices usually keep cases short.
About tract 53063013600
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